Unwanted "new album" menu item appearing in Drupal nav menu

Thank you for a quick response and your suggestions. I checked the url rewrite rule for "Show Item" and it was /v%path%. I changed it to "gallery/v/%path% but that did not fix the problem.

I forgot to mention that the unwanted menu items don't actually link to the galleries they suggest they link to - they just bring up the front page.

So, more detail:
We have an old, functioning non-drupal site at friendsoftheinyo.org (with another gallery install)
Within that is the test site friendsoftheinyo.org/foi
The gallery I'm using there is a completely separate installation and is installed in friendsoftheinyo.org/foi/gallery2
Gallery's data directory is above the site root as suggested and is "g2data"
The imbeded gallery module is in friendsoftheinyo.org/foi/modules

The only other URLrewrite rules that are active are the "Coonnect to WebDAV" and "Mount WebDAV" rules.

I appreciate the help but I'm not sure: what other additional details would be helpful? Thank you,
TV

Thank you again.
This is way over my head: This is the pertinent part of my .htaccess file:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} gallery\_remote2\.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/foi/main\.php$
RewriteRule . - [L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /foi/admin/(\?.|\ .)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/foi/main\.php$
RewriteRule . /foi/main.php?g2_view=core.SiteAdmin [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /foi/d/([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)/([^/?]+)(\?.|\ .)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/foi/main\.php$
RewriteRule . /gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=%1&g2_serialNumber=%2&g2_fileName=%3&g2_GALLERYSID=TMP_SESSION_ID_DI_NOISSES_PMT [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /foi/v/([^?]+)/slideshow\.html(\?.|\ .)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/foi/main\.php$
RewriteRule . /foi/main.php?g2_view=slideshow.Slideshow&g2_path=%1 [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /foi/c/add/([0-9]+)\.html(\?.|\ .)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/foi/main\.php$
RewriteRule . /foi/main.php?g2_view=comment.AddComment&g2_itemId=%1 [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /foi/key/([^?/]+)(\?.|\ .)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/foi/main\.php$
RewriteRule . /foi/main.php?g2_view=keyalbum.KeywordAlbum&g2_keyword=%1 [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /foi/v/([^?]+)(\?.|\ .)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/foi/main\.php$
RewriteRule . /foi/main.php?g2_path=%1 [QSA,L]

I looked at your test site. It is nice how the gallery album menu is in the Navigation block.
Thank you,
TV

I'm sorry - I should of specified. That .ht file is from my /foi drupal root folder. There is no .htaccess file in my gallery2 directory. However, the g2data directory has an .htaccess file and it has the rewrite engine set to off.

Regarding rules, what I said was "The only other URLrewrite rules that are active are the "Coonnect to WebDAV" and "Mount WebDAV" rules." However I see in the .htaccess file that Gallery thinks otherwise. In the gallery>admin>url rewrite rules the settings are active only for the Connect to webdav, Mount webdav, and show item settings.

Again, thank you for your attention to my issue.

1. Apologies - where would I check to see if Gallery's file system permissions allow it to alter Drupal's .htaccess file. (or if Drupal's file system allows Gallery2). Is this the proper way: The file system permission in gallery/admin are 755 for directories and 644 for files. Temporarily changing the permission to 777 on the drupal .htaccess file and then resaving the rewrite settings from Gallery2 did not change the .htaccess file in the Drupal ("foi") directory.

2. I discovered that if I went to administer>site configuration > Gallery settings >menus > menu items and unchecked all the options that the menus I don't want in the navigation menu function properly - that is, they don't appear. This might fix the symptom but obviously not the problem...

3. Which .htaccess file is the problem, the one above the website root, in directory "g2data" (where url rewrite mode if off), or the .htaccess file in the Drupal installation directory.
Thank you,
TV

Thanks for the code. I'll try that.

Is there any merit in uninstalling and reinstalling the URL rewrite module?

I have discovered some other problematic behavior in Gallery2 - I set everyone's permission to view all versions, [digibug] print, and [shutterfly]Print but only the rules in the .ht file are appearing. Same problem, I guess. I'll keep playing with it. I'm tempted to remove it all and re install everything.
Thanks much for your help.
TV

You are on to something here.
The setup tab produces this: "The parser you have selected does not support a referer check."

So, I uninstalled the URLrewrite module. Then I reinstalled and configured. During that process I chose the "PHP Path Info" method - thinking that previously I had chosen the "Apache mod_rewrite" however I got the "The parser you have selected does not support a referer check." message.

Thus I repeated the process but chose "Apache mod_rewrite". Now I put an empty text file called .htaccess w/ permissions temporarily set to 777 at path .../gallery2/ (full path entered in the admin panel).

However gallery admin then says "An error occured while trying to save your settings
Cannot write to the .htaccess file"
Any thoughts on that?

I suspect the problem is in my lack of understanding, not a module problem.

Thanks so much! Your support on this has been outstanding.

Following up to this -
Thanks to your help, I fixed this problem. It was an issue with apache mod-rewrite module not being configured properly thus the rewrite rules were not being created. So a couple of learnings for me that may be useful to others: in the embedded gallery>admin>url rewrite>set up tab you can't ignore the "parser ... does not support..." message.

TV

Even once I got Drupal>admin>gallery configured to indicate the settings were ok, clicking on a thumbnail back in the gallery still produced a 404. Critical errors were: The "show item" rule was wrong AND saving the rules from gallery2>admin>urlrewrite wrote to the wrong .htaccess file. The path to that was set wrong. That is to say, gallery2 was saving changes to mydrupalinstall/gallery2/.htaccess but drupal/gallery-embed was looking for a rule in mydrupalinstall/.htaccess.

Not sure all these steps were necessary but this is what I did; hope this is helpful.

1. I made sure the un-embedded Gallery2 was updated and functioning properly.
2. I deactivated and uninstalled URL-rewrite module from within gallery2's administration, then re-installed and reactivated it. Somewhere in there I ran the database update process from within gallery2/admin/maintenence.
3. I logged out of Gallery
4. Back in Drupal I deactivated and un-installed the gallery-embed module (i find the name confusing but I am referring to the module called "gallery")
5. In Drupal's ht access file I removed any reference to the rewrite rules. I started at the top of the file at the comment describing the rewrite, all the way down to the comment ending the rewrite rules. I'm sure this was more than was necessary but all that code is way over my head and this was the easiest way to make sure I had a fresh slate.
6. In Gallery2's htaccess file I also made sure there were no conflicting rules.
7. Ok, now basically have a fresh start with a functioning, non-embedded gallery and a drupal installation that doesn't know I care to embed any galleries...
8. CAREFULLY follow the instructions provided in the gallery-embed Read-me file
9. (emphasizing the gallery-embed instructions) in drupal>admin>site configuration>gallery settings>Install >>clean url/url rewrite make sure the path to the drupal .htaccess file is correct
10. In gallery2>admin>urlrewrite>rules make sure the rules are changed as the helper text back in the gallery-embed window indicates. eg under "show item" add the "gallery/". Remember to hit the "save' button at the bottom of the admin window.
11. I then viewed the .htaccess file to confirm the proper change was done. For us non-coders that is a little tough to sort out but a careful before/after look finds the change.

Some suggestions that might help avoid this:
-The names are confusing. We've got gallery2, gallery (what I'm calling gallery-embed) and Drupal's gallery. I'm still not clear on why add "gallery/" in the rules - which gallery is THIS "gallery" referring to? I don't really care - I'm just glad it works.
-This is really a beginner thing but in the helper text in your gallery configuration/install it might help to have a bit more of a description on the server path and public path. It would of helped me anyway.

I'll think about this some more and if I can be more clear I'll update this.

Edit: permissions were set to 644 on the .htaccess file. I don't think this was a permission issue.
Edit: to reiterate, critical in solving this "can't write .htaccess file was
1. making sure I knew where the .htaccess file was and the server path to it.
2. It was necessary for me to use manual entry option in gallery>configuration>install
3. confusingly, in gallery2>admin>urlrewrite>setup Gallery2 says "...you need to set up an extra.htaccess file to hold the mod_rewrite rules." I did not set up an extra file -but initially, when I had the "can't write .htaccess file" message, I had created this file. What i did was enter the proper absolute path to my drupal's .ht access file. I think my main problem was I had initially entered the wrong path. After a few experiments with the path, and repeated "can't write to the .htaccess file" I hit on the proper syntax for my server (/home/myusername/public_html/mydrupalinstall). I clicked "save" and it worked.

Thanks much for your help,
TV